Filthy Lucre is an immersive installation by contemporary American artist Darren Waterston, presenting a detailed reimagining of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room – the sumptuous 19th-century dining room once housed just a stone’s throw away from the V&A and now installed at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Waterston has faithfully recreated each of the room’s individual elements with a twist, with the installation revealing a magnificent ruin crumbling under the weight of material decadence and the egos of those involved in its creation. The installation is on display for the first time in the UK.
Duration | 25 January 2020 - 03 May 2020 |
Times | Daily: 10.00 – 17.45 Friday: 10.00 – 22.00 |
Cost | Free |
Venue | V&A |
Address | Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL |
Contact | / vanda@vam.ac.uk / www.vam.ac.uk |